I have a matlab GUI....I'd like to load ANY file type(doc,txt,dat,xls) into matlab as a matrix through the GUI...I'd appreciate any help I can get!!
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What might the files you wish to load contain ? – High Performance Mark Apr 19 '10 at 11:22
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d file contain string headers and numbers e.g(No.of Cars(header)...1,4,5,6.....!!! – Tim Apr 19 '10 at 12:34
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DOC, XLS, DAT to txt
As you might have realised by now, .doc are not plain-text. AFAIK, Matlab doesn't have any method to natively read these files. Hence, i suggest you do the following:
.txt go ahead and implement your GUI to read and intrepret Matrix-data from a .txt file.
You might want to refer this:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/dlmread.html
.xls USe the xlsread() function in MATLAB. Documentation below:
http://www.mathworks.com/access/helpdesk/help/techdoc/ref/xlsread.html
.doc files, Save as .txt and use the above .txt loader you implemented already.
.dat is not a standard extension several kinds of apps use .dat files and the internal format is different in all cases. (Post me a sample standard .dat file if U have one and i'll try and get back to you as to how to parse it in matlab.)
GoodLUCK!!
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thanks for d reply....but ur solution is about saving a matrix in matlab to a text file.....my question is.....how do i load these files as matrices into matlab. – Tim Apr 19 '10 at 12:04
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